saocial representations

Rappresentazioni di genere in politica. Il Ministro e la Ministra. Tra valutazione di efficacia, stereotipi di genere, prescrizioni di ruolo e sessismo linguistico. Primi risultati di un'indagine empirica.

The research has investigated the role of sexist language, gender stereotypes, and roles
prescriptions in the political sphere. It was framed in the tradition of social representations. We
have studied the impact of specific linguistic categories – relative both to masculine or feminine
declination for a Minister's political office, and to the use of references to stereotypical or counterstereotypical
behaviours - on 1) the evaluation of political effectiveness, 2) the associations to the

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